Carver 33 SUPER SPORT, Owner'S Manual

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PERATING AND
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ANEUVERING
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Entertaining guests can distract you from the real purpose of the cruise,
which is to familiarize yourself with your new boat. Bring only those
people (spouse and children) who will make up your regular crew. Invite
the sales person who sold you the boat or a member of your Carver
Dealer’s service staff along for the ride.
Carry a pad and pencil with you during this first outing. Write down any
questions that come to mind during the cruise so you can discuss them
with your dealer.
Follow the procedures outlined at the beginning of this section for fuel-
ing and starting the boat's engines.
This may be the first time you have been in total command of your new
boat. Proceed slowly. Have fun but remember that the objective of the
cruise is to learn more about how your boat operates and handles. Oper-
ate the engines at different RPMs. Try different trim angles. Monitor the
gauges. Practice backing down and turning slow speed tight corners that
simulate docking maneuvers.
6.5.2 Operating at Planing Speed
Your boat has a “planing” hull. A planing hull skims “over” the water
rather than “through” it. To do this, however, your boat first has to reach
a certain speed, called “planing speed.”
When you first accelerate from a dead stop, the trim angle of the boat
increases, causing the bow to rise and the stern to drop. If you continue
to accelerate, the boat eventually achieves plane, which means the bow
slowly drops to a more level attitude.
It is important to get on plane as soon as possible and avoid speeds that
cause the boat to plow through the water with the boat in a bow-high
attitude. A bow-high attitude obstructs your vision and limits the boat’s
handling and performance capabilities.
Once the boat is on plane, you can back the throttles off to a point where
the hull is still planing but the engines are operating at a fuel-efficient
speed.
6.5.3 Trim Tabs
Your boat is equipped with a set of electro-hydraulic trim tabs. Trim tabs
help the boat get on plane by allowing you to adjust the attitude of the
boat for variables such as load, passengers, seas or wind. Under normal
conditions your boat does not need adjustments to the trim tabs to